>> ^Tymbrwulf:

As ridiculous as searching a 3 year old for contraband is, put yourself in the TSA officer's position. She's required to do a search on anyone when the gate beeps twice regardless of age. She would have probably been reprimanded for NOT searching the child.
The system is broken.
BUT
It's easy to find fault without proposing a solution, so what say you, sifters? How would you fix the problem?


Just like you end a war, you end the TSA.

As ridiculous as searching a 3 year old for contraband is, put yourself in the TSA officer's position. She's required to do a search on anyone when the gate beeps twice regardless of age. She would have probably been reprimanded for NOT searching the child.

The system is broken.

BUT

It's easy to find fault without proposing a solution, so what say you, sifters? How would you fix the problem?

man, if only there was like a speaker attached, so you could get like a beeping sound as it sped up.

Yeah... kinda kills the 'point' of it if they just beep out that oh so naughty word.

that beeping is annoying. can't wrap my head around the fact that folks tolerate censorship.

does no one else hear that infernal beeping!?

*beg for a (beep-beep) Hello, who just joined?

summer, summer, summertime

time to sit back and unwind

Verse One: Fresh Prince

Here it is the groove slightly transformed

just a bit of a break from the norm

just a little somethin' to break the monotony

of all that hardcore dance that has gotten to be

a little bit out of control it's cool to dance

but what about the groove that soothes that moves romance

give me a soft subtle mix

and if ain't broke then don't try to fix it

and think of the summers of the past

adjust the base and let the alpine blast

pop in my CD and let me run a rhyme

and put your car on cruise and lay back cause this is summertime

Chorus

Verse Two: Fresh Prince

school is out and it's a sort of a buzz

a back then I didn't really know what it was

but now I see what have of this

the way that people respond to summer madness

the weather is hot and girls are dressing less

and checking out the fellas to tell 'em who's best

riding around in your jeep or your benzos

or in your Nissan sitting on lorenzos

back in Philly we be out in the park

a place called the plateau is where everybody goes

guys out hunting and girls doing likewise

honking at the honey in front of you with the light eyes

she turn around to see what you beeping at

it's like the summers a natural afradesiac

and with a pen and pad I compose this rhyme

to hit you and get you equipped for the summer time

Chorus

Verse Three: Fresh Prince

it's late in the day and I ain't been on the court yet

hustle to the mall to get me a short set

yeah I got on sneaks but I need a new pair

cause basketball courts in the summer got girls there

the temperature's about 88

hop in the water plug just for old times sake

break to ya crib change your clothes once more

cause you're invited to a barbeque that's starting at 4

sitting with your friends cause y'all remincise

about the days growing up and the first person you kiss

and as I think back makes me wonder how

the smell from a grill could spark up nostalgia

all the kids playing out front

little boys messin round with the girls playing double-dutch

while the DJ's spinning a tune as the old folks dance at your family reunion

then six o'clock rolls around

you just finished wiping your car down

it's time to cruise so you head to the summertime hangout

it looks like a car show

everybody come lookin real fine

fresh from the barber shop or fly from the beauty salon

every moment frontin and maxin

chillin in the car they spent all day waxin

leanin to the side but you can't speed through

Two miles an hour so everybody sees you

there's an air of love and of happiness

and this is the Fresh Prince's new defintion of summer madness

It tastes like cra[beep]ap.

beep beep

Should have beeped your real DOB.

Thanks for your reporting on this bullshit.

>> ^rebuilder:
I have to say, I wonder where the PC beeper / tandy examples came from. Of all these I actually kind of prefer those versions, but I also think it sounds way better in this video than it ever did from my beeper back in the day... Where's all that bass coming from, for one?


He probably just recorded the signal directly using an emulator like DOSBox. Some PCs had some pretty decent speakers but most used a tiny piezo.
The PC can generate a square wave anywhere between 18.2Hz and way into the ultrasound range, if the physical loudspeaker can play it is another question.

Speaking of PC sounds, I remember the first time I played Pinball Fantasies on a PC without a sound card... I couldn't believe my ears! Back in those days all you got from the speaker was some "beeps" and "boops" but using PWM and a lot of wizardry the guys at Digital Illusions made it sound like a proper sound card and were playing MODs on it straight from the Amiga version.

I want to see this performed live!

I suppose there would be issues with the timing of reload sound effects, etc, but I think they could get close if they had multiple members of some of the classes.

Getting the sentries to beep at the right time would be tricky too...

beep beep

As baffled as I am by people spending so much money on bottled water, I think it is ignorance, not stupidity that has people paying money for bottled tap water. The same forces that have convinced people to put carbonated sugar water, big macs or other garbage in their bodies for over a generation. Advertising has kids begging their parents for sugar coated pork puffs in the cereal isle. There are ads on all the time for "beverages" like Beep (a drink loaded with sugar and canola oil) for breakfast. People have been being told to eat garbage by television, and other advertising mediums for years, and they listened.

I think people make bad decisions like paying for bottle water regularly and eating unhealthy foods not because they are too stupid to grasp the idea of tap water or healthy food, but because no one has explained the alternative to them. During his address to TED, I was shocked when Jamie Oliver showed that an elementary school class could not identify a potato.

The kids in that classroom aren't stupid. What's stupid is an education curriculum that allows french fries to be placed in a food group in their school's cafeteria.
>> ^Xax:
How sad. It's nothing short of astounding stupidity amongst the populace that bottled water has become such an epidemic.